Public lectures
- Prof. Ronald Suny (University of Michigan, USA): "The Folly of Empire: Russia and the USSR, Expansion, Overreach, and Decline", 30 June 2022, PPCU
- Dr. Edgar Hovannisyan, Dr. Samvel Poghosyan, Dr. Khachatur Stepanyan (ASPU, Armenia): "Process of Transition from Colony into Diaspora", "The Armenian Genocide: Process and Consequences", "Sovietisation of Transcaucasia" , 13-17 December 2021, PPCU
- Prof. Harutyun Marutyan (Armenian Genocide Museum&Institute, Armenia): "The Armenian Genocide Memorial and Museum in Post-Centenary Period" , 27 February 2020, PPCU
- Prof. Harutyun Marutyan: "Remembering Genocide, Migration and Expulsion in Post-Soviet Armenia" , 3 May 2017, PPCU
- Dr. Edgar Hovannisyan, Dr. Khachatur Stepanyan, Dr. Samvel Poghosyan: "Transcaucasus in the 19th to 20th Century: Empires, Politics and People" , 22 March 2017, PPCU
More info → - Prof. Ronald Suny: "Affective Communities: Contradictions of National and Soviet Identities, 1917-1991" , 1 December 2016, ELTE (co-organised with PPCU)
- David Leupold: "Politics of Memory – Narrating, Silencing, Performing and Mapping 1915" , 11 October 2016, PPCU
Narekatsi lectures
- Dr. Haig Utidjian (Charles University, Prague): "Sweet in melody and voice. Observation on the Odes of St Gregory of Narek", 3 February 2023, PPCU
- Theo Maarten van Lint (University of Oxford): "A Funeral Lament for Sparapet Vahram Pahlawuni. Grigor Pahlawuni Magistros' Eleventh Century Christianization of Armenian Commemorative Ritual", 14 March 2019, PPCU
- Dr. Paul Haidostian (Haigazian University, Beirut, Lebanon): "The Armenian Community of Lebanon: Its Singularity, Institutions, and Challenges", 13 March 2019, PPCU
- Prof. Stefan Troebst: "Sweden, Muscovy and the Safavid Empire: An Armenian Mercantile Perspective", 28 February 2018, PPCU
- Hakob Matevosyan: "Revisiting Diaspora? Armenians of East-Central Europe", 4 December 2017, PPCU
- Meliné Pehlivanian: "Armenian book printing as an agent of change. The impact of a new technique on the intellectual history of the Armenians", 27 September 2017, PPCU
Conferences
- Refugees, Orphanages, Rebirth – 31 May - 1 June 2022, Apor Vilmos Catholic College (co-organised with PPCU)
Programme → - Erdélyi örmény városképek műemlékvédelme – 2 May 2019
- Knowledge Production and Education in the Armenian World: History and Present Challenges – 5–6 April 2019
Programme →
Exhibitions
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Unity and Variety. The Armenian Bible and Religious Tradition – 2019
More info →
Armenian researches, conferences, exhibitions before the establishment of the Department (2016)
Exhibitions
- The Tragedy of the Armenian People – The Armenian Genocide happened one Hundred Years Ago – 2015
In 2015 the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide was commemorated. The exhibition named "The Tragedy of Armenian People – The Armenian Genocide Happened One Hundred Years Ago" was opened with the cooperation of the National Széchényi Library and the Armenian National Library. The exhibition presented the detailed background and causes of the genocide, as well as emphasized the role of the genocide in the increase of the diaspora communities. After all it explained the formation of the First Republic of Armenia.
Several reports and documents remained about the everyday life of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, and also about the tragedy, preserved in the memories of the ambassador of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Constantinople during that time. Objects from Armenian refugees connected with both their everyday and religious life were presented at the exhibition.
The curators of the exhibition were Bálint Kovács and Sándor Őze
The exhibition was coordinated by Nikolett Czézár
More info → - Far Away from Mount Ararat – Armenian Culture in the Carpathian Basin – 2013
In 2013 the exhibition of “Far Away from Mount Ararat – Armenian Culture in the Carpathian Basin” was presented in the Historical Museum of Budapest with the cooperation of National Széchényi Library. The exhibition was opened in order to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the first printed Armenian book. Furthermore not only the Armenian written culture was exhibited, but also the historical treasures, and pieces of the church art of Transylvanian Armenians appeared. Several other significant art pieces connected with Armenian Culture were presented.
The curators of the exhibition were Bálint Kovács and Emese Pál
More info →
Official exhibition website →
Exhibition summary → - Treasures of Armenia – Secrets of the Ararat – 2002
For half year in 2002 the exhibition of "Treasures of Armenia – Secrets of Ararat" was presented in the Cultural Center of Károlyi Palace. The collection of the exhibition was from BC. 4th century until the AD. 19th century. The exhibited objects mainly came from the archaeological and ethnological collection of the National Historical Museum of Armenia.
Conferences
- The Hundred Years of the Remembrance – International Scientific Conference of the Armenian Genocide. 16 May 2016, PPCU
- Dimensions of Cultural Transfer: Armenians in Central and Eastern Europe. 5-6 April 2013, OSZK (National Széchényi Library)
- Armenian Diaspora in Central-Europe – International Scientific Conference. 26-27 September 2007, PPCU
Conference programme → - Armenian Diaspora in the Carpathian Basin II. – 2006
- Armenian Diaspora in the Carpathian Basin – 2005
